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Scandal Season 4 Episode 16 recap
Did you hear a couple of weird turns of phrase this episode? ‘You went around my back to Mellie’, instead of ‘behind my back’. The bits about whether or not Cyrus was ‘a rosebud guy’, that seemed to change to ‘rose petal guy’ a moment later. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 16 recap.
Would it have been different without the wig?
If she hadn’t had the wig, would this episode have been a little more straightforward and a little less camp? Or were we always going to have the giggles every time Sue walked into the room? I mean, the plot is pure froth, and also very reminiscent of Season 1 of Scandal. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 15 recap
Wow, what a great Vice President she will be. How secure I am in her talents. Or not: She will surely bring down the White House and all its inhabitants. Oh woe.
Right? Either way, you’re like, how did we just watch a 40 minute story about a woman with a nerdy laugh? Who caaaaaaares. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 14 recap
I would venture that this is the only show currently on TV that could have done a story like this (with the possible exception of Orange Is The New Black, and that would be a stretch). And so it’s not much of a stretch to posit that if this is the only show that can do an episode like this, that they have a responsibility to do an episode like this. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 14 recap
We did it! And inexplicably Liv has all of her coats with her! Hooray for coats!
No, seriously, I didn’t see this coming at all. I did think she’d manage to weasel her way out of a buy from Iran, because she knows how to push buttons, although I found the fact that it was a female operative both cool and um, dubiously realistic. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 12 recap
Well, this is one of those oxymorons that happens on television. “How do we make a kidnapping fun to watch?” Lots of moving parts, a hell of a lot of booze, a body count…
This episode was more of an Ocean’s Eleven roundup of how you make the calls when you have a kidnapping victim you’d like to save, when and how the President runs the world in the Sit Room (probably the most effective we’ve ever seen him be as President on this show, or at least the most definitive on ‘policy’) and exactly how to negotiate with terrorists. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 10 recap.
Okay, out of a pretend middle-eastern soundstage, into the fire. Oh, and the President of the United States was convinced to negotiate with terrorists and start a war by his wife, because she feared for the life of his mistress. I mean, I do love this show. How can you not?
There are pretty big things we’re meant to swallow, among them that Olivia’s captor thinks he’s going to have her in captivity for the next three years, or that Huck’s hacking, which is usually seconds-long, expanded to fit the entirety of this hour. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 10 recap
So I have a pretty strong fear of kidnapping. This is nonsensical, because I am worth zero to anyone. But overcautious parents combined with a few too many high-profile kidnapping cases in my growing up years, and now I’m a weirdo obsessive who’s kind of paranoid, still. Full Story

So this is new. You know how Olivia Pope on Scandal is based on a real woman? That’s Judy Smith. She’s everything you expect Olivia Pope to be and her resume includes advisor to people who are Heads of State and Executives of Major Corporations. She just advised on the Sony leak. She is the Big Time. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 9 recap
Well that’s redemption.
I mean the show is crazy, of course. The bulging eyes of Kerry Washington when she’s shouting at Cyrus need to be parodied immediately, and I am not good at starting memes but I really hope someone’s on it. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 8 recap
Do you buy it? Because I do.
I buy that everything Olivia Pope has accomplished has been with the guiding hand of her Daddy behind her. Some of the time, even most, she hasn’t needed it, like a parent who holds a cautious hand behind their child in case they fall on the stairs – but it’s been there the whole time. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 7 recap
Last night as I was pressing play on Scandal, Lainey discovered the Duggars. So I was already in a delighted mood and this episode of Scandal kicks it up a notch for several reasons. Mainly, it’s the best episode of Scandal in a very, very long time and you can tell because their “where are we and what’s going on” montage is to I’m Every Woman. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 6 recap
Of note, because I care, Elizabeth, the Republican party operative, Portia De Rossi’s best-ever haircut, is the same name as Bitsy, President Cooper’s widow. That is, Bitsy is a nickname for Elizabeth. So women named Elizabeth have balls and manipulate unsuspecting men in power. Full Story

Scandal Season 4 Episode 5 recap
This episode was all about good people, and whether there are any left. Of course that’s what the whole series is about. What it’s always been about – but back then, there were lines very clearly drawn. And now, well, Scandal isn’t trying to be as shocking as it can where the most morally clean act that happens this episode is Quinn performing a secret and illegal autopsy to extract a key from a dead girl’s stomach. Full Story